Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Reuters' Carmel Crimmins reports on abortion in the Philippines and increasing number of women seeking illegal abortions due to the United States government's agency USAID gradually halting distribution of birth control by 2008 in order to be "in line with Manila's goal of self-reliance in family planning." (What about self-reliance from the American troops in the Philippines?) Problem is is that the Philippines is run by militarist President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (evil evil evil), a devout Catholic with the political power of biships on her side. The other problem is, "Women who abort their fetuses in the Philippines risk a prison sentence of up to six years, while anyone providing help or assisting faces a similar sentence as well as the loss of any medical license." Here is another example of how limiting access to abortion hurts women.

New on Roses Place

Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we are nagging bitches and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we are selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we are typical weak females and we still can't get adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and for lots and lots of other reasons, we are part of the women's liberation movement.